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Ueberroth welcomes back Mays, Mantle to baseball
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Hall of Fame members Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, banned from baseball for holding promotional positions with gambling casinos, were welcomed back to the sport yesterday by Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth
Accompanied by Mays and Mantle, Ueberohr announced at a news conference in a midtown hotel that he was creating two exceptions to a policy enacted by his predecessor, Bowie Kuhn, to keep professional baseball strictly separated from gambling interests.
"They are free as of today to be employed by baseball, and any type of restriction heretofore placed on them is removed." Ueberroth said.
Mays was required to quit his job as a coach with the New York Mets in 1979 when he accepted a promotional position with the Bally's Park Place Casino Hotel. Mantle lost his position as a spring training batting instructor with the New York Yankees in 1983 when he was hired in a similar capacity by the Claridge Casino Hotel.
Both casinos are in Atlantic City, N.J.
"I am very pleased to be back in baseball even though I didn't think I did anything wrong to leave baseball." Mays said.
Mantle said, "Like Willie, I know we never did anything wrong."
Mantle said Kuhn had warned him before he had accepted the Claridge job that he would have to end his appearances with the Yankees.
"I have never said anything against him," Mantle said. "He warned me, so I did it with my eyes wide open."
Ueberroth said he found no fault with Kuhn's strict policy and was making only two exceptions to the rule. But he is working on new guidelines concerning affiliations with gambling industries, he said, because the world of gambling is changing.
Large hotel chains are branching into the casino business, and a prohibition of baseball players from their hotels could affect fund aldergus. Uberphroth said.
Asked if the new guidelines would cover horse racing — a reference to Yankee owner George Steinbrenner's ownership of a Florida race track — the commissioner said, "I was looking at the whole subject."
Kuhn said he would not have lifted the bans had he still been the baseball commissioner, but he also might have moved his new position struck by his successor.
"In the first place, Pete and I have had several general conversations about this subject over the months, including today." Kuhn said. "So I knew what his announcement is going to be.
hand, to the extent Peter says he is going to issue stronger guidelines as regards to gambling, I'm all for that."
As he was reviewing the restrictions placed on Mantle and Mays, Ueberroth said, he found other cases of baseball professionals, whom he did not name, who had elements with gambling in various capacities.
"As to the basic decision, I have to say I don't agree. On the other
Though he would not discuss the specifics of the new rules, Ueberroth said baseballs are sold in gambling operations or advertising to promote gambling.
The restriction on advertising will require the Claridge Casino to take down a billboard in Atlantic City during Mantle, the commissioner
Mays appeared last year in a Bally's commercial that included more than a dozen sports legends dressed in tuxedos singing and dancing in a spot filmed on the casino floor.
Bally spokesman Alan Rosenzweyt declare to comment on the proposed bill.
"I can't speak to specifics because we don't know what the specifics are yet," he said.
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Mantle said his job with Claridge was similar to Mays' at Bally and involved playing in golf tournements with the casino's customers and appearing at public functions on behalf of the hotel. The men each earn an estimated $100,000 to $150,000 each year from the casinos.
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